GET UP | LeBron James to Dallas? – Bobby Marks proposes bold trade between Mavericks & Lakers

GET UP | LeBron James to Dallas? – Bobby Marks proposes bold trade between Mavericks & Lakers

NBA trade deadline love all the player movements Bobby marks espnnba front office Insider joins us now on un Sportsman like with Michelle smallman Chris KY and Evan Cohen and I’m sitting there yesterday and I’m listening to Bobby and W on the W pod and I got discouraged because Bobby really lack of

Movement this week I we should expect lack of movement sell me on why there could be movement please Bobby well if you got discouraged yesterday I wouldn’t recommend listening to the pod today no no we had fun last just reled we had fun last night with that and I listen we’re

We’re kind of in this um I guess this in between stage right now where we’ve got this new collective bargaining agreement and then there’s a set of harsh restrictions that are going to take place starting on u in in mid April here and you’ve got a lot of teams that are

Reluctant to take back money um you’ve got a lot of teams I think we’ve got 11 teams that control 75% of the first round picks in the next next seven years so there’s a monopoly of teams like Oklahoma City and San Antonio and New York and Utah that are controlling all

These first round picks and then the other thing too is that it’s it’s a lot harder to make trades um under this new collective bargaining agreement as far as the ability to take back back money here um and we’ve already seen Pascal sakam and ogan and Obi you know two of

The Marquee guys get traded um you know within you know I guess within the last six weeks here uh play the the playing tournament I mean there’s a lot of different a lot of different factors here we’ll see movement um I’m not sure we saw last year 15 trades the week of

The dead deadline and on the deadline I don’t I don’t know if we’ll hit that number this year Bobby you mentioned the new limitations when it comes to teams taking back salary when it comes to draft picks and and an idea that Evan and I both floated yesterday in the wake

Of the Joel embiid news was the Philadelphia 76ers being sellers at the deadline and all of those expiring contracts trading those guys away bringing bringing back salary but also bringing back first round draft picks for their troubles so they could have uh ammunition to go out and improve the

Team once we get to this summer I’m just curious how does the embiid of it all dictate how Philadelphia operates at the trade deadline this week yeah pre pre agency I guess that’s what we call it right when you start doing things early in in February I think you have to be

Careful as far as taking back salary um you know they’ve got 12 expiring contracts as far as taking back salary that extends into next year is how those players fit in with Joel embiid um because we probably won’t see him for for a little bit of time um you’ve got

Three first round picks right now to trade um the appeal of their expiring is not high but as you said what player is out there um Malcolm brogon for example who’s got another year left Kyle kosma who’s got three years left um you know player dejonte Murray Bruce Brown I

Think the your your goal and this was even if um you know if embiid was healthy would it be to Target guys who either had a team option or a non-g guaranteed next year that kind of you can kind of headed your bet you can improve the roster right now and then

You could still have your flexibility um you could still have your flexibility uh next um next year here now Philadelphia is 4 and 11 without Joel embiid I can make the case that if we’re talking two two months from now Philadelphia could be in the playing tournament I mean I

Think that’s the reality of the situation here is for where this Eastern conference is so on one hand you don’t want to punt on on the on the trade deadline but on the other end it kind of comes back to there’s there’s not any Marquee guys out there um that you’re

Willing to kind of take back long-term money for Bobby we’ve been reading the tea leaves a lot with LeBron James and the Lakers with The Hourglass with the Nicks towel it see it seems like LeBron is sending some messages to his team but how do you think the Lakers should

Approach the trade deadline well they’re kind of in the same situation they’re one of these teams that we call them potential second apron teams so this is kind of really their last big um last really big trade deadline before how they improve outside of what they already have they’ve played better

Basketball certainly with the wins in Boston New York and then uh in Charlotte they go back home um but the likelihood is that this team is going to be in the in the playing tournament as a seven or eight seed here um the the hard part for

The Lakers is that they’ve got one first round pick to trade outside of LeBron and AD and Austin Reeves what player on the roster um has positive value that you don’t have to attach a draft pick and I know D’Angelo Russell has played better I don’t think a first round pick

Is going to get it done for um dejonte Murray here you you look at what they’ve done they they basically have ad LeBron Austin Reeves and Max Christie the only players on the roster since December 2022 so they’ve continually tried to turn around but eventually as I said

Last week like you need a dance partner like if you’re going to go to the if you want to go out and dance you need someone out there to dance with you and there’s just nobody out there right now we’re talking with the ESPN front office Insider NBA front office Insider Bobby

Marks here on un Sportsman like on ESPN Radio Bobby one of the guys and teams that I look at leading up to Thursday is the Golden State Warriors and I I keep coming back to one guy how did the Golden State Warriors improve their team without touching anyone that won a

Championship for them well that’s that’s Chris Paul right yeah well it has to be it’s kind of a proc process of elimination now you know if you know if you’re in that Golden State front office it’s you’re trying to balance as far as the sentiment Factor as far as you know

Certainly remove Steph Curry from the mix but you’ve got Klay Thompson on an expiring contract what’s the future of Klay Thompson um where they are right in a normal World NBA world you would be looking for trade suitors for Klay Thompson to try to maybe recoup a first

Round pick I think that and I know that there’s that sentiment there as far as him winning you for four championships now if it’s not Chris Paul and it’s not Draymond and it’s not the young players here it comes back to as far as flipping Chris Paul because the the likelihood is

That he’s got a non-guaranteed contract for next year if you want to bring back clay he’s going to be the odd man out anyway when you get to um when you get to to June here um so that would be that would be the end goal as far as trying

To you know move off that contract Bobby the New York Knicks I believe they have eight tradable first round draft picks I mean this time last week they were in the number two spot in the Eastern Conference standings I’m just curious like I I get that they’re dealing with

The Julius Randle injury but I I’m curious so if if the Knicks are ever going to use those picks and and and try to get over the hump this feels like this would be the year that they would no yeah I mean the East is as why if you

Were in if if New York was in the Western Conference I would say wait a minute like just hold on because the western conference is grueling this Eastern conference is wide open and even if Boston is sitting up top you look at what’s going on in Milwaukee with certainly with Philadelphia Cleveland

Right now I think is you know right could be the two seed or three seed um it it’s open they’ve got eight first as you said uh they’ve got I think 11 seconds they’ve got this Evan fornier um Evan fornier contract I joked last week

And I know it won’t happen but I said I’d call Brooklyn and see what what the availability of Mel Bridges is now listen Brooklyn and new and New York have not done a trade in 41 years I don’t think we’re going to see one this

Year when I worked in the Nets we never even called the Knicks and and made an offer for anything here so I don’t think that you know I you know that’s what I would be looking at here because eventually you’ve got the Randall injury you’ve got um Anon Obi who’s still out

And hopefully is back soon the minutes for this group and I think you saw that Saturday night against the Lakers the minutes will take its toll on this group here when you you’re you’re basically playing playoff type lineups at game 43 game 44 and you will need some

Reinforcements here BBY I think that what’s interesting you know you’ve you’ve brought up and you’ve written about the idea of the all the first round picks with 11 teams right which would off like what would the balance of BU and seller is a little weird here because those who would want to sell

Would want those first round picks back those who want to buy don’t have those first round picks so for teams like Chicago and Atlanta and Toronto is there a sale market for them right now well you know Atlanta is interesting because they had won I think three in a row

Before losing to to the Clippers now if you’re in that front off you think wait a minut we’ve played better basketball and I think that’s a little bit of Fool’s Gold here I think the reality is that this has been a below 500 team before Quinn Snyder took over it’s been

A below 500 team right now here um but you traded two first round unprotected first and a pick swap for dejon Murray you’re likely not getting that back um back in a deal here and then on on Chicago’s um end you know remove Zack LaVine who has who’s going to have

Surgery here Alex kuso I mean you’re not getting too first and I think that’s what you would be looking for I’ve we it hasn’t been talked about but what’s going to happen with Demar D rozan that’s the that’s the big thing here where basically if you’re the 10th seed

And you’ve got a play player of that caliber um on an expiring contract that would be the guy teams should be targeting but we really haven’t seen um anything at all you know reported with him and then Toronto I think it’s you know Bruce Brown and Gary Trent Jr two

Guys um two guys that are potentially could be on expiring contracts very quickly we got about 30 seconds is there another name or team that we have not brought up that you would want to bring up leading up to the deadline I just think the Thunder of the wild card here

I I really do I mean I know they’ve got you know Lev tradable first and um I I just think is there a big out there they can get as far as some protection for Chad holgren um you know Sam prey is kind of you know keeps these picks to

His vest here but I would I would you know for me I would Circle Oklahoma City Bobby great job as always we’ll listen to the Pod today as you said it’s going to discourage us for with I’m literally on the treadmill listening to that yesterday getting bothered make the TR

It will not discourage you trust me and we had batteries this time we got the show off to a good start Bobby marks ESPN front office Insider will be all over our NBA coverage including the W pod this this week thank you Bobby thanks guys coming up uh an NFL head

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GET UP | LeBron James to Dallas? – Bobby Marks proposes bold trade between Mavericks & Lakers